Hamilton County Courthouse

Before the era of the present courthouse, Hamilton County government operated from stores, a rustic school, a former livery stable, a two-story building whose top floor was designed as a courtroom, and briefly a saloon. Fire destroyed two of these early improvised courthouses, and the first permanent courthouse, built in 1878, also burned in 1886. Outlaws were so numerous in those days that guards were hired to protect visiting judges. The 1887 courthouse, built of native limestone quarried two miles east of Hamilton, remained unchanged until it was remodeled in 1931.

Hamilton, Texas · United States